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Upgrade ASP.NET Core Web 3.1 app to ASP.NET Core 5

There is no .NET Core 5.0, everything now comes under one umbrella, which is .NET 5 (A Major Release). The idea is to bring all .NET runtimes into a single .NET platform with unified base class libraries (BCL) for all kinds of application like ASP.NET Core, Windows Forms, WPF, Blazor, Xamarin etc. This move now makes .NET a unified platform for all types of .NET applications. If you are working with ASP.NET Core 3.1 app, and planning to upgrade the app to .NET 5 then it’s very easy to upgrade ASP.NET Core Web 3.1 app to ASP.NET Core 5.
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ASP.NET Core 5 – Enabling Razor runtime compilation

Razor files (.cshtml) are compiled at both build and publish time and this gives better performance as your views are compiled. We can also enable runtime compilation, which will help developers to see any modified view change in real-time, without starting the application again. The recent version of ASP.NET Core (ASP.NET Core 5.0) Preview 2 came out and you can start building an app on ASP.NET Core 5.0 framework. ASP.NET Core 5.0 changes this experience for enabling razor runtime compilation. This is now available as an option while creating the ASP.NET Core 5.0 project. It’s a tiny enhancement, but good to know. Read More

ASP.NET Core 3.0 App with .NET Core 3.0 preview 2 release

Earlier I posted about creating First ASP.NET Core 3.0 App using Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1 release. ASP.NET Core 3.0 is a major release and has some code breaking changes. However, .NET Core 3.0 preview 1 release didn’t offer any insight of the new features. Recently, .NET Core 3.0 preview 2 came out and now we can get a feel of ASP.NET Core 3.0 new features. In this post, let’s create a new ASP.NET Core 3.0 app with .NET Core 3.0 preview 2 release and take a look at the new features. Read More